John lines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LINES, OF VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CURTAIN-RING.

SPECIFICATION-forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,637, dated J une 4, 1889.

Application filed March l5, 1889. Serial Nc. 303,382. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN LINES, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in Curtain-Rings; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, and which Io said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a perspective View of the ring complete; Fig. 2, the blank from which the ring is formed; Fig. 3, a transverse section of I 5 the blank brought into tubular shape; Fig. 4, a central section in the plane of the ring, showing the blank brought into ring shape and one end inserted within the other; Fig. 5, the eye as prepared for attachment to the zo ring; Fig. G, an enlarged section in the plane of the ring, showingthe two ends as set to.- gether with the eye thereon; Fig. 7, a transvese section of the same 5 Fig. S, a transverse section showing the eye set down upon the overlapping ends and showing the indentations in the said overlapping ends; Fig. 9, a longitudinal section of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of metal rings with which it is 3o desired to combine an eye-such, for illustration, as used on cuItain-poles-the ring adapted to work upon the pole and the eye of the ring adapted for attachment of the curtain or drapery. It is desirable that these 3 5 rings should be as light as they can consistently be made.

The object of my invention is to make the ring from a strip of met-al brought into tubular shape and then into ring shape, the two 4o ends united and the eye applied without the necessary use of solder; audit consists in the construction, as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

As represented in Fig. l, A represents the ring, and B the eye. The ring is made from a strip of sheet metal, as seen in Fig. 2, of a length little more than the circumference of the ring and of a width to be brought into tubular shape, so that the edges may substan- 5o tially meet upon the inside, as seen in Fig. 3. It is then brought into ring shape, as seen in Fig. 4, one end of the tube introduced within the other end, as seen at a, Fig. 4. This makes a lap of the two ends, the one upon the other. The eye B is made from sheet metal, and is constructed with a loop b proj ecting from it, as seen in Fig. 5. Before the two ends of the ring are set together, as seen in Fig. 4, the loop of the eye is placed upon the one end which is to overlap the other end, 6o and then the two parts are'set together, as represented in Fig. t', cl'representing the end which overlaps the other inner end e. The loop bis of a sufficient size to set over the thus-joined ends, as seen in Fig. 7 and when 65 so set the loop is struck down upon the inside, as seen in Fig. 8, which flattens the loop and the metal of the overlapping ends of the ring, as seen in Fig. 9, thus contracting the ring in the direction of its diameter Where 7o the loop is applied, and indenting, as it were, the one part into the other and the loop into the indentation of the ring. This indenting of the overlapping ends of the ring and the application of the loop of the eye thereto serves to firmly secure the ends of the ring thus overlapped, and the ring is produced complete, wit-h its eye attached without solder. The ring is extremely light and very cheap in its construction, yet may be made 8o of a high degree of finish or ornamentation, as taste or demands of the trade may require.

Vhile preferring to make the ring from a strip of sheet metal, as I have described, the tube from which the ring is made may be formed in any of the known means for making such a tube. I therefore do not wish to be understood as limiting the invention to the particular means described for forming the tube from whichthe ring is made. 9o

I elaim- The herein-described curtain-ring, consisting of a tube bent into ring shape, the ends of the tube introduced the one within the other, one end overlapping the other, combined with a metal eye B, constructed with a loop Z), embracing the overlappin g ends of the ring, and struck down upon the said overlapping cnds to form indentations in the two, whereby the ring is secured in place and the roo ends united to complete the ring.

JOHN LINES. Vitnesses:

E. C. MEEKEE, T. R. HYDE, Jr. 

